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#1 2013-11-15 23:54:17

niharika_kumar
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mirror- help me!

pls help
Q. Two plane mirrors A and B are aligned parallel  to each other as shown in fig.
A light is incident at an angle 30° at a point just inside one end of A .The plane of incidence coincides with the plane of figure.Find the maximum number of times the ray undergoes reflections before it emerges out.

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#2 2013-11-15 23:59:54

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Re: mirror- help me!

Do you have the picture?

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#3 2013-11-16 00:00:38

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I thought you had figured out how to post a picture?

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#4 2013-11-16 00:34:57

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Alternately you can upload the picture in a familiar site and post the image hotlink here

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#5 2013-11-16 04:28:14

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pls copy paste the following link for the fig.:-

http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=290049#p290049

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#6 2013-11-16 04:29:25

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i am still not able to find the upload option in this section.

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#7 2013-11-16 04:30:59

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Re: mirror- help me!

It is in post reply on the bottom, I can make a picture of it if you need it.

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#8 2013-11-16 04:36:14

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showimage.php?pid=290049&filename=mirror.gif

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#9 2013-11-16 06:13:36

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Hi;

The formula says 30.

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#10 2013-11-16 06:26:36

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What a coincidence! This is the same question I encountered while taking the IIT JEE some years back. The answer is 30.

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#11 2013-11-16 08:44:50

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I got 35 instead but I don’t know where I went wrong. sad

EDIT: I got it now. I carelessly used sin instead of tan.

Last edited by Nehushtan (2013-11-16 17:39:26)

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#12 2013-11-16 11:44:06

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Re: mirror- help me!

hi niharika_kumar

When the ray hits mirror B for the first time it has travelled in the right/left direction

This can happen until it has travelled 2root 3 in that direction.  Say it happens n times then

But the ray has also hit A at the start so add one, but 'just' misses B at the end so take one off.

Hence the maximum number of reflections is 30.

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#13 2013-11-18 16:29:24

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thank you! smile

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#14 2013-11-19 09:13:56

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Niharika, you are preparing for the JEE?

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#15 2013-11-20 04:59:23

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JEE is my goal and its preparations are going in parallel,  but now I am in class10 so my focus is more on boards.
Did you give JEE,if yes then how was it?

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#16 2013-11-20 05:16:54

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What is JEE? Joint Entrance Examinations?

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#17 2013-11-20 16:33:19

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yes (as far as I know).

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#18 2014-03-09 04:08:26

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niharika_kumar wrote:

JEE is my goal and its preparations are going in parallel,  but now I am in class10 so my focus is more on boards.
Did you give JEE,if yes then how was it?

Just saw this post right now...
It wasn't extremely hard. I managed to crack the main and the advanced (AIR 52) but decided to go to MIT instead. For your preparation, try plancess.com (it gives tutorials by IIT JEE crackers AIR <100). Use NCERT books for all the subjects, but for physics go for HC Verma.
Good luck.

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#19 2014-03-09 20:06:56

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wow, that's really great.

thanks for your suggestion.will try that after my exams are over. smile

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